Looks like Dallas-based Hillwood may have an inside track on Amazon.com Inc.'s future fulfillment centers in Texas.

Hillwood said on Thursday that Amazon.com plans to open a fulfillment center in a 950,0000 square-foot facility under construction in the AllianceCalifornia project in San Bernardino, Calif.

A joint venture between Hillwood and New York-based Clarion Partners is developing the project. Construction started earlier this year and Amazon plans to move in by early fall.

In a news release, Amazon.com vice president of global customer fulfillment Dave Clark thanked Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, state and local government officials for their support. Translation: He's glad that an agreement was reached with the state last fall over sales tax collections. Amazon got another year of tax-free shopping for its California customers. It starts collecting in September when the fulfillment center opens with 1,000 new workers.

In the same news release, Hillwood senior vice president John Magness also thanked officials and noted that "we've been planning to develop this property for some time, and we're thrilled that Amazon will be moving in after the facility is completed." Translation: We thought we had lost Amazon for good there for a while last year when its negotiations with the state appeared to be breaking down.

In Texas, Hillwood operates AllianceTexas. There must be room somewhere on that 17,000-acre development for an Amazon.com fulfillment center.

Last week, Amazon agreed to spend $200 million on new distribution facilities in Texas and create 2,500 over the next four years.

After a four-year stalemate, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs wasn't in the mood for extending the tax holiday for Amazon and insisted that it begin collecting sales tax from its Texas customers on July 1.

Amazon has reached agreements with other states in recent months and some offered to delay Amazon's sale tax collection duties in their states until 2014, or before that if federal rules are created.

Making Internet sales taxes uniform across all states appears to be one of the few topics with lots of bipartisan support among state officials and in Congress. And Amazon has publicly supported it.